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Jiang argues that surrounding China with U.S. bases and cutting Malacca, the Middle East, Angola, and Indian Ocean routes would leave China dependent on U.S. terms for food, energy, and factories.
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Malacca
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Jiang says using Hormuz-like pressure on Malacca would raise tremendous costs for China but could provoke Chinese retaliation.
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Jiang says America can answer Iranian control of Hormuz by controlling Malacca, where China receives about 80 percent of its oil.
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Jiang predicts a major China-Japan conflict this year because both depend on trade and Middle East oil routed through Malacca, making Taiwan strategically vital for embargoing the other side.
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Jiang says America's leverage over China comes from control of the first island chain and the ability to cut maritime trade through chokepoints like Malacca.
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Jiang says both Japan and China are export economies dependent on Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian resource flows through the Strait of Malacca.
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Jiang argues that Taiwan is existential for Japan because Chinese control would allow Beijing to choke Japanese access to trade and oil, while Japan's aging demography narrows the window in which it can still fight.
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Jiang says China’s export dependence is its greatest strength and weakness, while Japan-Taiwan-Malacca geography will intensify China-Japan rivalry in 2026.
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"...is completely surrounded, okay? And this is it, the Strait of Malacca. This is a major choke point. And as you can see, it's..."
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"So if you're China, yes, you could rely on Russia, but you see how little this is, okay? There's too little trade between Russia..."
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"...points, such as the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca. So if Iran can impose tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, there's..."
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"...of Indonesia, which will allow America to control the Strait of Malacca, right? So now the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz. So the..."
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"...gets about 80 % of its oil from the Strait of Malacca, right? So the Strait of Malacca is a heavily contested territory. So..."
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"...east and so they have to go through the state of malacca that's that's a main trade route and so whoever controls taiwan can..."
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"to see a lot of hostilities between china and japan and so you'll see a lot of hostilities between china and japan right so..."
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"...chinese trade you can close close close off the state of malacca so so china in the short term needs to come to an..."
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"...or the middle east you have to go for something called malacca right um you and and so um taiwan is key because if..."
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"taiwan do whatever it's one and they believe that with when partners attack as you said that taiwan is part of japan's vital national..."
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"strength and the greatest vulnerability in the United States is um the US dollar right but the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of..."
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"...Taiwan Taiwan could blockade Japan from access to the state of Malacca and therefore um oil from the Middle East which Japan is dependent..."
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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